Acts 8:30

And Philip running thither, heard him reading the prophet Isaias. And he said: Thinkest thou that thou understandest what thou readest?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

In Context

29And the Spirit said to Philip: Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

31Who said: And how can I, unless some man shew me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he that received the seed by the way side.

Matthew 13:51Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.

Matthew 24:15When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

Luke 24:44And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

John 5:39Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting; and the same are they that give testimony of me.

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:27-40

Philip and the Ethiopian. 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join… Read the whole commentary →

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